Every year, September 8, International Literacy Day is celebrated to highlight the importance of literacy to citizens, communities and associations. Over the past five decades, the concept of literacy has evolved from simple basic skills in reading, writing and numeracy to encompass broader notions such as functional literacy and the foundation for lifelong learning. Today, […]
NGOs interested in applying for ECOSOC consultative status should submit their application and required documents on or before the deadline 1 June 2019. The following link provides background information, the benefits and instructions how to apply: https://bit.ly/2ozYpVw
On Friday, March 15, shortly before 2:00 pm local time, a white supremacist terrorist opened fire on hundreds of worshipers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and slaughtered 49 innocent people. During the attack, nearly 30 others were seriously injured, including several children. Once again, an individual inhabited by identity hatred has died among […]
Nearly 60 people were killed on Friday in two attacks on mosques in Afghanistan, one Shia in Kabul, the other Sunni in the center, ending a particularly deadly week across the country. The terrorist group Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in Kabul, killing at least 39 people. The […]
Due to power cuts of more than 20 hours a day that have become a rule these days, the water crisis has prompted the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip to dig wells without authorization, ignoring consequences for serious threats to already scarce aquifer reserves. Omar Hamid, head of a family of nine, told Al-monitor, “the […]
The hospital’s attack killed 35 people in Ghor province. In Kabul, a car bomb exploded in the west of the city, killing at least 26 and more than forty wounded. Sunday 23 and Monday 24 July were murderous days in Afghanistan. The Taliban attacked a hospital in a remote district of Ghor province in central […]
Israeli security forces killed two Palestinians on Wednesday in an operation in the West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said. The incident took place before dawn in a refugee camp in Jenin. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the two Palestinians killed were 16 and 21 years old. A third person was injured by a […]
At least 28 people were killed and over 100 wounded Friday in violent clashes between rival armed militias in Tripoli, according to spokesman for the Ministry of Health Anwar Frajallah, without being able to specify in the immediate victims. These fights have loyalties to the government of national unity (GNA), backed by the international community, […]
Palmyra, Syria, is another scar on a site martyred by terrorists. A few weeks ago, it was dynamited by the terrorist group of Daesh (ISIS) and the explosions disfigured it. For Wail Hafian, director of antiquities in Homs “What Daesh did here is a crime, but these are just scratches on the face of this […]
For more than four years Aleppo has been at war with Aleppo. Its population has been at the same time a victim of a jihadist insurgency, reprisal bombings, political cleansing by religious tribunals and government courts, settling of scores between loyalists and rebels on the one hand and rebels and jihadists on the other, an […]